Sir Grodus is probably the most menacing villain in The Thousand-Year Door. He’s hilarious, menacing, and original, using the Duplighost design that we’ve seen before in new and interesting ways. Overall, I just love Doopliss as a character. Doopliss, though, makes the fight much more interesting, reprising his role as a Mario impersonator one final time. As I mentioned earlier, the Shadow Sirens themselves are rather uninteresting and trite. The second fight against him, where he uses your own partners against you and convinces them that, yep, he’s the real Mario, is a really neat subversion of expectations that plays well given Chapter 4’s overall theme.ĭoopliss’ final fight, as part of the Shadow Sirens, also helps lift up a rather boring fight. Honestly, while there are a lot of criticisms of Chapter 4 being very repetitive and a real pace-killer, this fight earns back a lot of that lost charm.
That is until the camera cuts back to reveal that Doopliss swapped bodies with Mario.
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While I promised to leave forced story losses out of the ranking, Doopliss’ first fight is too interesting to leave out, as it’s one of the greatest fake-outs in Mario series history.Īfter you “defeat” Doopliss the first time around, the same “End of Chapter” screen appears, the same music plays, and “Mario” gets the Crystal Star, just like normal. We have a motivation to beat her since she’s eating a lot of Koopas in Petalburg, she has an interesting weakness: crickets, and, she’s our first major boss battle in the game, serving as a skilltest of sorts for players early in the adventure. Hooktail is, by far, the most interesting of these three. In the end, though, he’s still just another dragon boss. Gloomtail is interesting because he’s found in the game’s final section and has a number of powerful attacks that make him relatively interesting to fight. That being said, from a design perspective, he’s pedantic at best. Resting at the bottom of the Pit of 100 Trials, he’s quite difficult to beat, with 200 HP and a litany of difficult encounters right before him. Sure, there’s some small differences, but they’re variations on the same model and all siblings, according to the game’s lore.īonetail is the most powerful, but the least interesting. I’m grouping these three bosses together because they are effectively the same. With that out of the way, let’s get down to ranking! 13. Rule #3: There is no Rule #3 this time around! Rule #2: Multiple encounters with the same boss will be considered as the same encounter. I’m also leaving out forced story losses. Rule #1: We’re only including the main bosses and the game’s two optional bosses. With that being said, here are some ground rules. They’re funny, they’re colorful, and they’re oftentimes very silly.
A massive improvement over its predecessor, The Thousand- Year Doorupped the ante in many different ways, incorporating new mechanics, new character designs, new bosses, and new partners in a way that feels both original and entertaining.īut it’s the bosses that shine the brightest in The Thousand-Year Door.
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is an all-time classic, a fundamentally great game with extremely memorable characters. Ranking Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Boss Battles
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